The people’s champion
His family were panicked about The Legalizer. You can see why. But you'll love him...
Low life
Not once in the past ten years have I told the truth without calculating the capital that came with it
Real Life
The message of the leaflet is that, like sex, recycling is very much an activity anyone can do
Bridge
‘Yikes! I’ve been Grosvenored!’ This is a wail you will hear from time to time when a Declarer has been…
Song of Norway
Magnus Carlsen has become the 16th world chess champion, taking the title with three wins, seven draws and no losses,…
No. 294
White to play. This position is a variation from Anand-Carlsen, Chennai (Game 9). White is on the verge of delivering…
Picture this
In Competition 2825 you were invited to supply a poem for a well-known painting of your choice. The poet and…
2141: Megacant
The unclued lights (all but two of two words) are of a kind, listed in Chambers 2011. Elsewhere, ignore one…
to 2138: Hundred centimes
The unclued Across lights are words abbreviated by C (= 100) and the unclued Down lights are abbreviated by c…
England learn their lesson
You can tell Stuart Lancaster used to be a schoolmaster. His players are learning
Stop attacking Aunty
This magazine rarely misses an opportunity to criticise the ABC. So readers may be surprised to find us defending Aunty…
Diary
I flew from London into Sydney, then Melbourne, to make three dinner speeches in a row. Through nerves I never…
Australian Notes
Tony Abbott is right. Too much is being made of the Governor-General’s ‘injudicious’ support for republicanism and gay marriage. It…
Brown study
There was one really interesting aspect of the revelation of the salaries being paid to top ABC presenters, apart from…
